Celebrate 30 years of the OA.
With original work from Imani Perry, Kristen Arnett, Diane Roberts, and so many others, our Spring Issue honors our past and looks into our expansive future.
Lynell George
About
Lynell George is a Los Angeles–based journalist and essayist. She is the author of three books of nonfiction: No Crystal Stair: African Americans in the City of Angels (Verso), After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame (Angel City Press), and the Hugo Award finalist A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler (Angel City Press). Her liner notes for Otis Redding Live at the Whisky A Go Go: The Complete Recordings won a 2017 Grammy.